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Inspired by Derek Sivers and his NowNowNow project

Last updated: May 14, 2026

Work

At work, a good part of my attention is going into an internal RAG-based engineering chatbot. The goal is fairly simple: make institutional knowledge easier to access without forcing people to remember which Confluence page, decision doc, or playbook contains the answer.

The interesting part is in the details. We’re indexing around our internal Confluence pages and building the system on top of LangGraph, with a custom retrieval and grading pipeline. I like this kind of work because it sits at a useful intersection of product thinking, applied AI, and the very unglamorous reality of messy internal documentation.

Alongside that, my broader day job is still what it usually is: platform engineering, technical direction, and figuring out how to act as a force multiplier in a team full of talented people.

Learning

Lately I’ve been spending time understanding agentic AI systems more deeply. I’m learning prompting techniques, agent orchestration, workflow observability - on some days I feel like a kid in a candy store and on other days, like a local idiot who does not know anything about anything. The latter often happens when Anthropic drops a new feature.

Separately, I’ve been diving into concurrency in Java again. Virtual threads, fine-grained locks, and structured concurrency have been especially interesting. This is one of those areas where the abstractions are elegant right up until they are not, which is usually where the real learning starts.

Music

Fred Again.. is very much my current jam. I think he’s one of the best things to come out of the dance music scene in a long time. I’ve also been listening to Swimming Paul and Fontaines D.C. quite a bit. When none of those fit the mood, I usually end up back at Radiohead. Someday I’ll code up a widget that displays my recently played Spotify artists here - however, today is not that day.

TV/Movies

The Pitt is the last show I watched and enjoyed thoroughly. I thought it was riveting, raw, and honestly a masterpiece. I also watched One Battle After Another, which felt messy and beautiful in a way I quite liked. And yes, I am very much waiting for season 5 of The Bear.